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Birth

By Catherine Price and Sandra Robinson
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Birth is the definitive Australian guide for expectant parents, offering practical, current, and research-backed information on preconception, pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenting. It covers medical treatments, natural therapies, physical changes, labour, birth variations, myths, and common concerns.
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Practical, up-to-date, accurate and research-based information on everything relating to preconception, pregnancy, childbirth and early parenting. It presents medical treatments and natural therapies, the many physical changes of pregnancy, labour and birth and possible variations from 'the norm'.

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Birth, the comprehensive Australian bible for expectant parents, provides practical, up-to-date, accurate and research-based information on everything relating to preconception, pregnancy, childbirth and early parenting.

The book presents medical treatments and natural therapies, covering the many physical changes of pregnancy, labour and birth, as well as possible variations from 'the norm'.

It dispels myths and addresses all the common concerns and endless worries of women, their partners and support people, while also providing achievable support strategies.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781405039819

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 February 2010

Country: Australia

Imprint: Macmillan Australia

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 53.0mm

Width: 154.0mm

Height: 236.0mm

Weight: 752g

Pages: 608

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Catherine Price Health & Wellness Non-Fiction Parenting & Family Sandra Robinson Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

Catherine Price has spent much of her working life as a midwife. She still works casually in a Sydney birth centre, but now devotes much of her time running the www.birth.com.au website, with her business partner and close friend, Sandra Robinson. She is married and has two sons.Sandra Robinson, has worked as a childbirth educator in Sydney since 1991. With the tireless help of her close friend of 25 years, Catherine Price, a business partnership and website were born. Sandra is married and has one daughter Alice, and two sons, Liam and Declan.

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